Detachable foot for wire trays



F. M. SNYDER DETACHABLE FOOT FOR WIRE TRAYS July" 24, 1923.

Original Filed April 25 1921 gwue'ntov TrankM-Snyder;

Fatented July 24, 1923.

UNITED STATES FRANK M. SNYDER, OF LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO TI-IEPEERLESS GOODS COMPANY, OF LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, A CORPORATION INDIANA.

DETACHABIiE FOOT FOR WIRE TRAYS.

Application filed April 25, 1921, Serial No. 464,475. Renewed June9,1923.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. SNYDER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at,

Lafayette, in the county of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, haveinvented a new and useful Detachable Foot for Wire Trays, of which thefollowing is a specification.

It is the object of my invention to provide a simple, inexpensive andeasily handled detachable foot, which may be rubber covered, for theordinary wire desk tray.

The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention. Fig. 1 is aperspective view of a wire tray equipped with detachable feet inaccordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of such a detachablefoot attached to a fragment of a wire tray; and Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of such a detachable foot, showing in dotted lines a fragment ofthe cooperating portion of the wire trav.

The wire tray is any ordinary wire tray, commonly used on desks. It isto keep this tray from scratching the desk, and for other reasons, thatI provide the detachable feet which are the subject of this invention, atray having ordinarily four such feet, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Each ofthese detachable feet consists of a wire having an intermediate portion11 covered with a short piece of rubber tubing 12 and off-set downwardfrom the tray bottom; two pieces 13 projecting obliquely upward from theends of the intermediate portion 11; two alined portions 14 parallel tothe intermediate portion 11 and projecting outward; two hook portions 15at the outer ends of the portions 1 1, these two hook portions beingproperly spaced apart so that the parts between them must be sprungslightly to get them over two parallel wires 16 of the tray bottom,which wires as shown have one similar wire in between them though thisis not at all essential; two transverse portions 17 projecting from theends of the hook portions 15 at right angles to the alined portions 1Aand arranged to overlie the two wires 16 which are clasped by the hookportions 15; and two upwardly open hooks 18 at the free ends of thetransverse portions 17 which open hooks 18 are arranged to pass beneatha tray-bottom wire 19 transverse to the wires 16.

To apply the foot to a tray, one of the hook portions 15 is hookedaround a wire 16 so that the corresponding transverse portion 17 liesabove and close to such wires 16 and the corresponding hook 18 hooksbeneath a wire 19; and then the other hook 15 is sprung over anotherwire 16 to bring itsv associated transverse portions 17 and hook 18 intosimilar relation to such wires 16 and the wire 19. To detach the hookthe op eratlon is reversed.

The detachable foot is thus easily attached and detached, and when it isin place it is rigid with respect to the tray and is not readilydetached accidentally.

I claim as my invention:

l. A detachable foot for wire trays, comprising a wire having anintermediate portion, end portions connected to the ends of theintermediate portion and provided with hooks arranged to hook upon twoparallel wires of a tray bottom, and transverse portions extending fromthe ends of said end portions transversely thereto andprovided at theirends with hooks arranged to hook upon a wire of said traybottomitransverse to the first-na1ned wires thereof.

2. A detachable foot for wire trays, comprising a wire having anintermediate portion, end portions connected to the ends of theintermediate portion and provided with hooks arranged to hook upon twoparallel wires of a tray bottom, and a transverse portion extending fromthe end of an end portion transversely thereto and provided at its endwith a hook adapted to hook upon a tray-bottom wire transverse to thefirstnamed tray-bottom wires.

3. A detachable foot for wire trays, comprising a wire having adownwardly offset intermediate portion, end portions connected to theends of the intermediate portion and provided with hooks arranged tohook upon two parallel wires of a tray bottom, and a transverse portionextending from the end of an end portion transversely thereto andprovided at its end with a hook adapted to hook upon a tray-bottom wiretransverse to the first-named tray-bottom wires.

4. A detachable foot for wire trays, comprising a wire having anintermediate portion, a rubber tube surrounding. said intermediateportion, end portions connected to the ends of the intermediate portionand provided with hooks arranged to hook upon two parallel wires of atray bottom, and a transverse portion extendingiroln-the end ofanend'portion transversely theretoand provided at its end with a hookadapted to hook upon a tray-bottom wire transverse to 5 the first-namedtray bottom wires.

5. Awletachable footfor wire trays, comprising a wire having anintermediate p ort1on, end portions connected to the ends of the1nter1ned1ate1port10n and provided w1th 7 1o hooks arranged to hook upontwo parallel wiresofatraybottom, and a transverse portion extending fromthe end of an end portion transversely thereto andprovided at its endwith an upwardly open hook adapted to hook beneath a tray-bottom wiretransverse to the first-named tray-bottoinwires.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Lafayette, Indiana,this 19th day of April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred, and twenty-one.

FRANK M. SNYDER.

